The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) is currently investigating the deaths of several children in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan due to consumption of a cough syrup that was allegedly contaminated. The syrup in question has already been banned while samples have been sent to the state drug authority for testing.

A total of seven children – six in Chhindwara district, Madhya Pradesh and one in Sikar district, Rajasthan – are reported to have lost their lives following kidney failure after being administered the said cough syrup. A doctor in Chhindwara today said the total number of deaths may have now possibly risen to nine.

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Cough syrup deaths or other reasons?

Dr Pawan Nandurkar, Associate Professor and Head of Paediatrics, Chhindwara said while the deaths have be

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